MadSec1 report

* by popular demand - in two weeks we will not have MadSec2. We might have MadSec0 or MadSec1.4 but not MadSec2.

* otherwise the meeting went fine. It seems that cat5 and weirdo tshirt are not good enough (esp. when I seat in a corner and it's dark), as quite a few people could not find us. Also, getting table for 2-15 people is hard at The Old Fashioned - we are relocating to the Angelic Brewing Co.

* about 10 people showed up. We had people working in hospitals, university, utility, healthcare, manufacturing and internet infrastructure (like CAIDA, just cooler).

* topics (rough)
- web app testing
- content filtering
- funny travel stories
- access enablers (developers, sysadmins) vs. us (IT Security Roadblock Dpt) vs. users
- futility of technological measures to prevent information leakage
- funny car breakage stories
- password guessing
- beer is good
- java sucks, perl is horrible (Ed. no it's NOT!), Python rules
- what do we want pylint to do
- How MapReduce is cool, but Hadoop sucks
- Misc other stuff

* references, the ones I remember
- assessments: wikto and the rest of sensepost's warchest
- wireless work: Matador consulting
- site and mailing list covering security metrics securitymetrics.com

More to come.

Woot! MadSec1 on Oct 18th!

The fist meeting - at the Old Fashioned, 7pm, on Oct 18th.

I should have a decent identification aid figured out by than. Note - while drinking beer is advised, it is by no means required.

Actually, I am pretty sure that two members do not drink.

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Welcome to the land of beer and fried cheese curds!

What is this supposed to be?

-- An informal meetup of information security professionals in Madison, Wi. Unlike other meetups, you will not be expected to pay dues, "join up", or present a zero-day exploit to attend.

Where might it meet?

-- I vote for The Old Fashioned, 23 N. Pinckney St, Madison downtown. It might be too loud, it might be just perfect.


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When might it meet?

-- I have no clue yet. Weekday, 7:00PM maybe. We stay until people get tired of hanging out. Assume 3 hours.

Why would you do that?

-- Because I do not know of other place for the ITSec people to meet, trade stories and blame auditors.

// More to come. Idea and text stolen from chisec.
// For details contact Marcin Antkiewicz at marcin*kajtek.org